Diagnostic value of cardiac CT in the evaluation of bicuspid aortic stenosis: Comparison with echocardiography and operative findings

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 895-899

  Tanaka, Ryoichi ^a   Yoshioka, Kunihiro ^a   Niinuma, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohsawa, Satoshi ^a   Okabayashi, Hitoshi ^a   Ehara, Shigeru ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Bicuspid aortic valve; CT; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL; IOPAMIDOL; IOPAMIRON 370; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; BICUSPID AORTIC STENOSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958585763     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3164     Document Type: Article

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